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Lorna, as I say, this is a very fast-moving

development now to this story. What exactly

are Essex Police going to be assessing?

Well, Richard, Essex Police say they are looking

into the information about the use of private

jets by Jeffrey Epstein right here at Stansted.

And this area behind me is where the private

jets come in to land, because information on

those recently released Jeffrey Epstein files

appears to suggest that some women were brought

in and out of the UK on his private jet on those

flights here. And we can show you some of the

flight logs from the Epstein files. This one

particularly shows Jeffrey Epstein travelled

from here at Stansted, and we're about 40 miles

from central London here, to JFK Airport in

New York City. And then in this email, a redacted

person says to Jeffrey Epstein, "If you arrive

in private jet into Stansted from Paris with..."

and the name is redacted, "...if she possesses

a US visa, she is allowed to enter the UK."

And they then go on to say that she can transfer

from one private jet to another. Now, this all

comes after, as you mentioned, a former UK Prime

Minister, Gordon Brown, has suggested that Epstein's

jet made around 90 flights to or from UK airports.

Now, we can't independently verify those claims,

but he also alleges that a number of British

women were on board those planes. Now, he says

in an article for the New Statesman that Stansted

was where women were transferred from one Epstein

plane to another. Women arriving on private

planes into Britain would not need British visas,

and it seems the authorities never knew what

was happening. Now, he wants an investigation

into just how and why those flights happened,

particularly after Jeffrey Epstein was convicted

in 2008. Now, it's important to say that Stansted

Airport has responded to all of this. It says

that all private aircraft here use independent

operators and entirely independent terminals

not operated by London Stansted itself. So private

jet passengers don't come into the main terminal

building. The airport doesn't have any management

or visibility of passenger arrangements on those

privately operated planes. But this announcement

does mean that four UK police forces are now

looking into various things that have come out

of those Epstein files. It does seem that anyone

and indeed anywhere associated with Jeffrey

Epstein is now coming in for intense scrutiny.